(computing) The mode of a device driver in which input data is processed or preprocessed.

(countable, chiefly US) A cooking contest. / (chemistry, military) Accidental detonation of explosives, especially as the result of excessive heat.

(idiomatic) All hope is gone; there is no possibility of success; the period of good fortune is over.

Partially or completely cooked in advance.

(transitive) To prepare (food or chemical substances) by cooking or heating. / (transitive, figuratively) To manufacture; to invent (something, often a deceit or falsehood).

(idiomatic) To manipulate accounting information, especially illegally. / (idiomatic, by extension) To falsify an account of an event.

(informal) A long or complicated journey, an indirect route.

plural of Captain Cook

(Australia, rhyming slang) A look

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of slow-cook